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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 11 1 Browse Search
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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge parks. (search)
Cambridge parks. Henry D. Yerxa, President of the Park Commission. This year we celebrate the anniversary of the incorporation of Cambridge as a city; we consider what Cambridge is, what Cambridge shall be. In the strength of the intellectual life of the seat of Harvard University we have great faith. We believe, too, that the political life of our city stands as an example of the success of a steady struggle for good government. If such be the truth, is it not worth our while to dwellneed of persistent and lasting effort for the development of the park system felt by the city government, urged by Mayor Bancroft in his inaugural address, that in August of the following year, 1893, Rev. John O'Brien, George Howland Cox, and Henry D. Yerxa were appointed park commissioners, and since that time they have labored diligently to make Cambridge what all wish the city to be. Of course, the commission has been obliged to struggle with the difficulties of a city well on the road to a p
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Government of the city of Cambridge, 1896. (search)
les B. Parker. Pumping Engineer, Edwin C. Brooks. Water Registrar, Walter H. Harding. Park Commissioners. Henry D. Yerxa, President. Rev. John O'Brien. George Howland Cox. General Superintendent of Parks, George R. Cook. trustee. Leander M. Hannum, Mr. John H. Ponce, Mr. Edmund Reardon, Mr. John Hopewell, Jr., Mr. Theodore H. Raymond, Mr. Henry D. Yerxa, Dr. Charles Bullock, Mr. Otis S. Brown, Rev. David N. Beach, Mr. George Howland Cox, Col. Thomas W. Higginson. Saunders, William E. Russell, Edgar R. Champlin, George Close, Joseph J. Kelley, Edmund Reardon, George A. Allison, Henry D. Yerxa, John Hopewell, Jr., and James J. Myers. salute. Alderman Peter F. Rourke, chairman; Councilman Eben H. Googinsman George E. Saunders, clerk; Alderman Watson G. Cutter, Councilman Robert A. Parry, Messrs. Stillman F. Kelley, and Henry D. Yerxa. banquet. Alderman Henry White, chairman; Councilman Walter C. Wardwell, clerk; Councilman Albert S. Apsey, Mes